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"It’s not looking good out there. And these days, like many, you might feel
confused, baffled, even bewildered. You have a lot of questions, circling
through your head — and answers are thin on the ground. Is the economy ever
going to get better? Why is it doing so badly, anyways? Why does my life seem
stuck, or my kid’s, or my friends’? Why are our societies being overrun by
hateful lunatics? Is democracy going to make it — and am I?
Let’s talk about all this. This is an age of unanswered questions. Questions
like the ones above. And one of the strange things about now is that we’re all
haunted by these questions. We ask ourselves about them over and over again.
But rarely do we speak them out loud. And so, well, we’re doing a pretty poor
job — this “we” means intellectuals, writers, academics, and so forth, people
like yours truly, if you want to think of me as any of those things — of
providing much in the way of answers. So the first thing to know is:
everybody’s going crazy asking themselves questions like these, and the reason
we all keep asking ourselves is that we don’t talk about it enough in the first
place, suffering in silence.
We doomscroll, hate-watch, and cling to escapism. But it doesn’t help. More
than that? We brood. We ruminate. Discouraged, forlorn, disheartened. These
things — brooding, rumination, dwelling, repeating and replaying distressing
questions and situations — are hallmark signs of depression, by the way. So —
first things first — You’re not alone. We’re all asking ourselves the big
questions these days, in a kind of grim obsession.
Gently, then — let’s talk."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
